When You Are Overwhelmed

Isn't strange how problems pile up like a multiple car crash? Perhaps you can manage one problem a day (better to have none at all) but to have a series of problems on a single day can be too much!

You try to apply the brakes, so to speak, when your problem accelerates only to be struck from behind by another problem! After so many hits, your emotional and physically well being drops. Your spiritual immunity system, so to speak, is lowered and you become vulnerable. Vulnerable to bad attitudes, corrupt mindsets, complaining etc. Most importantly, you need immediate relief, a little rest to catch your breath.

In the book of Daniel 7:25 it says, "And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time" (KJV). The Hebrew word for weary means to become old, wear out. It can also suggest a weariness of the mind through affliction. Satan will throw anything and everything with the single purpose of wearing you down so you can be weak and vulnerable.

But God gives us a precious promise in Psalms 140:7, "O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle" (KJV).

Also, in Isaiah 4:5-6, "Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night; over everything the glory will be a canopy. It will be a shelter and shade from the heat of the day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and rain" (NIV).

Beloved, when you feel your mind compressing from the external pressures of anxiety and weariness, call out to God to cover your mind. The enemy may come to you like a fierce storm, but you are protected in God's shelter. Nothing can touch you or harm you.

Remember the fable of the three little pigs and how the wolf threaten to blow down their houses? Satan will try to puff and huff, but you are surrounded by a Rock - immovable, unchangeable and protective!